MCCAMMON, IDAHO — A young brother and sister from Pocatello are among the three people who died Sunday afternoon in a horrific head-on collision that shut down Highway 30 for several hours near McCammon.
Authorities confirmed that 15-year-old Eric Neibaur, a member of the Century High School football team, and his sister Lauren Neibaur, 13, both died in the 12:42 p.m. wreck along with Jay Lanningham, 70, of Nampa.
A female juvenile from the Nampa area suffered critical injuries in the crash and an emergency responder with Bannock County Search and Rescue nearly died at the scene when he suffered a massive heart attack. The names of the injured girl and responder have not yet been released.
The wreck occurred when Eric Neibaur was driving westbound on Highway 30 in a red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck with his sister and drifted into the eastbound lanes, colliding head-on with an eastbound white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Lanningham. The female juvenile who was critically injured was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV.
State police said they have a good idea of what caused the wreck but they’re not going to release that information until completing their investigation.
All four of the accident victims were trapped in their vehicles, both of which suffered catastrophic front-end damage.
A Bannock County sheriff’s deputy was the first responder at the scene and he was met by family members of the victims who were trying to extricate them from their wrecked vehicles. The family members were apparently following in other vehicles and saw the accident happen.
The scene was incredibly gruesome and chaotic, according to Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen, and after the incident the deputy who was first on the scene was given the rest of the day off.
Two emergency helicopters and multiple ambulances were dispatched to the wreck.
State police said the girl who was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV was airlifted via emergency helicopter from the accident scene to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Authorities said she is currently listed in critical condition but is expected to survive. The Neibaurs and Lanningham all died at the scene, authorities said. There were no other occupants in the vehicles.
The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office reported that a member of the county’s search and rescue unit suffered a severe heart attack at the accident scene. Authorities said the responder was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance personnel at the scene had to revive him via a portable defibrillator. The responder was then transported by ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center. The Sheriff’s Office reported early Sunday evening that he is expected to survive.
Highway 30 was shut down for over five hours because of the crash.
That teenage boy should not have been driving the pickup truck. We would not be surprised if the investigation finds that he was horsing around with his sister and/or texting when this head-on collision happened.
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MCCAMMON, IDAHO — Three people are dead and another is in critical condition after a head-on collision Sunday afternoon on Highway 30 near this Bannock County town.
In addition an emergency responder with Bannock County Search and Rescue nearly died at the scene of the 12:42 p.m. wreck when he suffered a severe heart attack.
Authorities said a male juvenile, a female juvenile and an older man died and another female juvenile is in critical condition as a result of the crash involving a pickup truck and SUV.
State police identified the deceased adult as Jay Lanningham, 70, of Nampa, but the names of the two deceased juveniles have not yet been released. Authorities did confirm that both of the deceased juveniles are teenagers from Pocatello; it’s believed the injured juvenile is from the Nampa area. The name of the Bannock County Search and Rescue member who had the heart attack has also not yet been released.
The male and female juvenile who died were in a westbound red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck driven by the male that collided head-on with an eastbound white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Lanningham. The juvenile who was critically injured was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV.
State police said they have a good idea of what caused the wreck but they’re not going to release that information until completing their investigation.
All four of the accident victims were trapped in their vehicles, both of which suffered catastrophic front-end damage.
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A Bannock County sheriff’s deputy was the first responder at the scene and he was met by family members of the victims who were trying to extricate them from their wrecked vehicles. The family members were apparently following in other vehicles and saw the accident happen. The scene was incredibly gruesome and chaotic, according to Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen, and after the incident the deputy who was first on the scene was given the rest of the day off.
Two emergency helicopters and multiple ambulances were dispatched to the wreck.
State police said the injured girl was airlifted via emergency helicopter from the accident scene to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Authorities said she is currently listed in critical condition but she is expected to survive. The three deceased individuals all died at the scene.
Other than the three people who died and the injured girl, there were no other occupants in the vehicles.
The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office reported that a member of the county’s search and rescue unit suffered a severe heart attack at the accident scene. He was overweight and at risk of heart attack. Authorities said the responder was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance personnel at the scene had to revive him via a portable defibrillator. The responder was then transported by ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center. The Sheriff’s Office reported early Saturday evening that he is expected to survive.
Highway 30 was shut down for over five hours because of the crash but has since reopened.
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An overweight emergency worker is expected to survive after suffering a heart attack while responding to a head-on collision in Idaho that killed two teen siblings and a 70-year-old man. The unidentified member of the Bannock County search and rescue unit was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest, KSL reported.
Emergency workers revived him with a portable defibrillator and he was transported to Portneuf Medical Center. While authorities have not released the name of the worker nor of the 70-year-old’s injured passenger, they did identify the three victims killed in Sunday’s horror crash.
Authorities said 15-year-old driver Eric Neibaur, and his sister, 13-year-old Lauren Neibaur, were killed when the red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck they were traveling in drifted into oncoming traffic and collided with Jay Lanningham’s white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban, KSL reported. Lanningham was killed and his female juvenile passenger was critically injured.
The teens’ family members had been traveling in other vehicles and were among the first on the scene. Emergency workers reportedly arrived to find relatives trying to extract the victims from the vehicles, KSL reported. The Bannock County sheriff’s deputy who was the first on the scene was given the day off to emotionally recover from the accident.
The teens are being remembered for their inseparable bond and love of dirt bikes. The family had been camping and riding dirt bikes in Big Springs ahead of the fatal accident, Idaho Statesman reported.
“Everybody can say that they are friends, that they loved their siblings, or whatever they want, but those two were unique,” Bobbi Neibaur, the teens’ mother, told Idaho Statesman. “They had a magical connection.”
Authorities said they will not release the cause of the accident until the investigation is complete. Multiple fundraisers are planned to help cover funeral costs for the Neibaur family and two GoFundMe pages have been set up.